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Una obra destinada a quienes deseen aproximarse de forma fiable y precisa a la realidad histórica del jazz clásico. El autor sitúa en el mapa a los principales protagonistas del jazz clásico, tanto los consagrados como los secundarios, de un modo riguroso y ameno. Desde el ragtime de Scout Joplin y James Scout, al blues de Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith y Louis Amstrong y la era del swing de las grandes orquestas de Duke Ellington, glenn Millar y Benny Goodman y finalizando en los grandes solistas como Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young y Lionel Hampton.

Una guía práctica para descubrir el jazz moderno, sus compositores, intérpretes y obras más representativas con selección discográfica. Una obra destinada a quienes deseen aproximarse de forma fiable y precisa a la realidad histórica y presente del jazz moderno. En otras palabras, este volumen permite situar en el mapa a los principales protagonistas del jazz actual, tanto los consagrados como los secundarios y los novísimos más relevantes, de un modo riguroso y ameno. Se trata de una apasionante revisión del jazz moderno, a través de los perfiles biográficos de sus figuras más reconocidas

Este libro es una guía para la construcción de personajes épicos según sus misiones, perfiles y viajes interiores. ¿Qué tienen en común Katniss Everdeen, Harry Potter, Clarice Starling, Ripley, Matilda, Batman, Pippi Langstrumpf, Guido Orefice, Buzz Lightyear...? Todos son héroes o heroínas que siguen la divisa «proteger y servir», pero ¿cuál es la estructura que subyace en el imaginario heroico al que pertenecen? Este libro es una guía para la construcción de personajes épicos según sus misiones, perfiles y viajes interiores. Una obra que no solo examina los recursos creativos empleados en las tramas de aventura, sino que replantea el desarrollo de los guiones de forja heroica a través de varias películas que coinciden con la estructura que J. R. R. Tolkien creó en El señor de los anillos.

A giant of modern fashion photography, Bourdin lent his surrealist eye to the shoes and fashions of Charles Jourdan. Creating compositions full of movement, color, and sensuality, this pioneering collaboration between designer and photographer still exerts a profound influence on modern fashion photography. The late 1960s saw some of the most dynamic periods in French fashion. And the union between Bourdin and Jourdan captured the spirit of the moment unlike any other creative partnership of the era. Jourdan, a polymath who occupied the office of both couturier and shoe designer, tapped Bourdin, a true surrealist among the fashion photographers of the age, and engaged in a creative dialogue through to Jourdan’s passing in 1976.

Zaha Hadid (1950 - 2016) was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically nothing. Some even said her work was simply impossible to build. Yet, during the latter years of her life, Hadid’s daring visions became a reality, bringing a new and unique architectural language to cities and structures such as the Port House in Antwerp, the Al Janoub Stadium near Doha, Qatar, and the spectacular new airport terminal in Beijing. By her untimely death in 2016, Hadid was firmly established among architecture’s finest elite, working on projects in Europe, China, the Middle East, and the United States. She was the first female architect to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the prestigious RIBA Royal Gold Medal, with her long-time Partner Patrik Schumacher now the leader of Zaha Hadid Architects and in charge of many new projects.

Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite winning critical acclaim. Some even said her audacious, futuristic designs were unbuildable. During the latter years of her life, Hadid’s daring visions became a reality, bringing a unique new architectural language to cities and structures as varied as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, hailed by The New York Times as “the most important new building in America since the Cold War”; the MAXXI Museum in Rome; the Guangzhou Opera House in China; and the London 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre. At the time of her unexpected death in 2016, Hadid was firmly established among the elite of world architecture, recognized as the first woman to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, but above all as a giver of new forms, the first great architect of the noughties. From her early sharply angled buildings to later more fluid architecture that made floors, ceilings, walls, and furniture part of an overall design, this essential introduction presents key examples of Hadid’s pioneering practice. She was an artist, as much as an architect, who fought to break the old rules and crafted her own 21st-century universe.

One of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958–1990) created a signature style that blended street art, graffiti, a Pop sensibility, and cartoon elements to unique, memorable effect. With thick black outlines, bright colors, and kinetic figures, his public (and occasionally illegal) interventions, sculptures, and works on canvas and paper have become instantly recognizable icons of 20th-century visual culture. From his first chalk drawings in the New York City subway stations, to his renowned “Radiant Baby” symbol, and his commissions for Swatch Watch and Absolut Vodka, Haring’s work was both emblematic of the manic work ethic of 1980s New York, yet distinctive for its social awareness. Belying their bright, playful aesthetics, his pieces often tackled intensely controversial socio-political issues, including racism, capitalism, religious fundamentalism, and the increasing impact of AIDS on New York’s gay community, the latter foreshadowing his own death from the disease in 1990.

Un proyecto como este es algo excepcional, sin equivalentes antes ni despues: una pareja casada de fotógrafos publican autorretratos muy personales, incluso íntimos, y retratos mutuos tomados durante decadas, y complementa esas fotografías privadas con imágenes de personajes y celebridades de la jet-set. En 1998, Helmut y June Newton publicaron su legendario proyecto conjunto Us and Them en forma de libro y tambien en exposiciones complementarias. La primera parte de Us and Them, una historia incomparable de cincuenta y cinco años de convivencia y amor, nos ofrece una visión de la vida privada de los fotógrafos.Es una especie de diario fotográfico que documenta la vida que compartieron Helmut y June Newton por medio de las instantáneas que tomaron el uno del otro.

Born in Berlin in 1920, Helmut Newton trained as a teenager with legendary photographer Yva, following her lead into the enticing pastures of fashion, portraiture and nudes. Forced to flee the Nazis aged only 18, Newton never left Berlin behind. After his career exploded in Paris in the 1960s, he returned regularly to shoot for magazines like Constanze, Adam, Vogue, Condé Nast's Traveler, ZEITmagazin, Männer Vogue, Max and the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin as well as his own magazine Helmut Newton’s Illustrated.